Middlebury Institute student Kyle Pilutti won second prize in an international UN essay competition and had the opportunity to share her ideas about how to stem the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction with UN officials at Harvard last week.

Reflecting on Shimon Peres’ legacy, Middlebury Institute Professor Avner Cohen shared a letter he received in 1999 from the elder statesman after the publication of his landmark history of Israel’s nuclear program, Israel and the Bomb.